ffmpeg demotion from main to multiverse

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 31 15:10:26 CDT 2005


On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:23:11PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:

> I propose a demotion of ffmpeg to multiverse. The only main package
> using it and one of it libraries (Build-Depends and Depends) is kino,
> but kino could be compiled against libdv (which is in main) for the same
> purpose (i.e. DV decoding). The only _possible_ disadvantage would be
> slower DV decoding on non-x86 architectures.
> A debdiff to let kino compile/link against libdv is here[1]

If you're certain that this won't result in a loss of functionality for
kino, I have no problem with this.

> 5) The future of the package in Debian is really unsure. There was some
> discussion on debian-devel [4] whether this will stay in Debian because
> of 4). The Debian mplayer package is on NEW s ince many weeks because
> of that until this is clarified.

mplayer has its own issues as far as Debian is concerned, above and beyond
any questions about ffmpeg.

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 - mdz



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